Survey: Should Delaware become a right-to-work state?

January 24, 2018

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In recent months, Delaware has seen the rise and fall of a local effort to bring a right-to-work law to the First State.

It all started with a proposal bySussex County Councilman Rob Arlett back in October 2017 to make the county a designated right-to-work area. At the time, many questioned whether a county government could pass such a law. Attorney General Matt Denn ultimately decided it could not. This moved the fight to the General Assembly, where Rep. Ronald Gray could not get the votes to move the bill out of committee.

For now, the effort is quashed. But we want to hear what you think. Click below to answer this week’s DBT poll question on right-to-work laws in Delaware:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DPZDWWG

22 Comments

The phrase “Right to Work” is misleading. Everyone already has the right to work. If you want better wages, benefits, training and representation you don’t mind paying union dues and join a union. If you mind paying union dues and feel unions don’t offer you anything then you work nonunion. Right to work really means the right to work for less for all workers.

Throughout the past 3 years of prosperity Delaware has ranked as number 50 in regard to state GDP growth. These pro union comments are valueless if as a result of strict union laws, companies avoid opening up in Delaware. It’s no secret that most of the
union type jobs in Delaware can only be had, if you join the union. On the other hand those States that have right to not join a union have
not seen a significant decline in their union membership. It has caused the union to be more competitive and offer more for the union dues, such as health insurance and retirement benefits. There is no movement to discourage people from joining unions, however those States with the best growth are those with “right to work (without joining a union) laws”.

We need strong representatives who want to maintain good paying jobs. I will fight any party or man who tries to take my rights to a union away, be it straight in my face or the dirty under handed stuff being pulled in Kent.

Greetings fellow patriots. I attended the Sussex County’s right to work city councils hearing a few weeks back.
I asked Robert Arnett who is the sponsor of the bill! if he new of anyone that this bill would hurt if it did not get pasted, and he said to me I have to admit I do not know of anyone who will be hurt by not having this bill.
I stated to him that this is political warfare trying to suppress organized labor movement in America, I also said that people who work in organized labor make more money and have more benefits, and that people with more money and more benefits there is less crime in their community, they can afford to get extra education for their children.
I also stated that lived in this country all of my life and I never knew that I needed a right to work, I also said I have read the Constitution, and it says all rights not given to the federal government in the Constitution are held in reserve for the states, all rights not given to the states in the Constitution are held in reserve for the people.

I also said I do not remember reading in the Constitution were it said anything about work.
This is nothing more than a political Strategy out of the communist handbook to suppressed other political opinions and organization, and is designed to try to kill organize labor.
The people of Delaware do not realize but the Communist Party takes over a state a little bit of the time, small towns and cities until they get to the state capital, they create slavery through regulations !!!
Everybody should take a free college course on the Constitution of the United States of America from Hillsdale College.
Bill Sharpe. Ellendale DE.

The right to work Bill is designed as a Scam a Rouge, Camouflaged as fairness, but it is Exactly the Opposite !

It’s designed to create political warfare and to suppress a free people’s voice in their nations conversation of control and fairness A regulation for oppression.

It’s quite okay for the working people to slave their lives away helping to build a nation for the elitist who do not wish to share the fruits of life, how dare WE the working people have a voice in governing their nation !

The right to work Bill is designed for Political Oppression of a Particular Group of Individuals, by the two Dominant political groups who wish to have total control in governing the people of the United States of America !

The right to work Bill’s IS Political Warfare because it is design specifically to destroy organized labo!r, organize labor which brought fairness to all people who belong to an organized labor group, fair treatment to all who were members of organized labor, organized labor has broken down racial and sexual barriers in the workplace, WE Are instrumental in increasing workplace safety for all employees, union and nonunion !

Organize labor has not only increase financial stability among our members, but it is also increase financial compensation for the nonunion as well !.

The two political parties see organize labor as the biggest political threat to their existence, they know that organize labor increases the wages and benefits for their members and their families, increases the intellectual and educational process for members and their children, supplies them with a fair wage , good health benefits, and retirement, something the government is incapable of doing !.

The government or the two dominant political parties cannot provide any of these liberties and freedoms, they do not wish organize labor the working men and women of America to have a political voice in government!

Organize labor Puts WE The People back into the political conversation and control of our government,And gives the average American working man and woman of voice back in government. !.

The right to work Bill is nothing more than a tool out of the toolbox of the Communist Party,and is part of the King’s rule of law !

Bill Sharpe, international brotherhood of elevator constructors local five.